I love the sound of this upgrade, although I haven’t used it yet. I always wait a few days for the bugs to fall out. Then I do just one blog first, to see what problems are likely to occur.

But this upgrade, “Dexter” has a lot of great features added to it.

  1. Native tagging support. You don’t need to rely on a plugin written by someone else. WordPress 2.3 can handle it, and can import tags from popular tagging plugins.
  2. Update notification of WordPress and plugins.
  3. Cleaned up how URLs are handled. It even helps with forwarding posts if you change the post slug, so you don’t get dead links from it. They call this canonical URLs, and they’re hoping it will help with search engine optimization.
  4. Pending review section for multi-author blogs to make it easier for editors and administrators to notice when an author needs a post reviewed for publication. This sounds really great for handling guest posts too.
  5. More advanced WYSIWYG. You can access more of the Tiny MCE features if you like.

There are also a lot of features that will matter most to developers.

We’ll just have to see how well an update of this size does over the next few days. I’m always cautious about upgrading right away, especially when major changes have been made. Some bugs hide until regular people are actually using the software.

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